Earlier in life signed pictures by the name of Josh and also Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
Most noted for novels of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Known as the father of American Literature
Last 20 years of life was anti-imperialistic and anti-capitalistic
Vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League
Wrote many political pamphlets and books against imperialism
Views on Imperialism
Originally for United States imperialism in Cuba and Philippines until he saw what United States planned on doing
Felt the Filipinos should give their freedom to themselves and not let the Americans do it
Believed in imperialism up until reading the Treaty of Paris
Originally believed the U.S. was fighting exclusivley for the freedom of Cuba and not as a pretext for expansion
Argued the Fillipinos were capable of governing themselves
Believed we were there not to grant them freedom but to keep them under our control
Idea of the Anti-Inperialist League believed that we were merely replacing Spain in the Philippines
Wrote about the horrors of the U.S. Army to the Filippinos for the Anti-Imperialist League
References
Two references of Twain would be William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers. Both were members of the Anti-Imperialist League and possessed the same views that the U.S. was wrong in the way they treated the issue of the Philippines.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens aka Mark Twain
Born: November 30, 1835
Died: April 21, 1910
Background Information
Views on Imperialism
References
Two references of Twain would be William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers. Both were members of the Anti-Imperialist League and possessed the same views that the U.S. was wrong in the way they treated the issue of the Philippines.Sources